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...There is no need for stricter regulations; they are already stringent enough," says Frank Petermann, an attorney specializing in medical law. "From a legal standpoint, it's difficult to understand how the Ministry of Justice can work out a draft bill that violates the Swiss constitution." That is one of the arguments that EXIT, Dignitas and other supporters of assisted suicide are vowing to use in their fight to maintain the existing law. "We will do all we can to combat this attempt at taking away our freedom," EXIT president Sobel vows. "If need be, we'll force a nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Government Tries to Stop 'Suicide Tourists' | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Such growing influence may be considered good or bad, but either way it is probably unavoidable. "Indisputably, Germany is going to occupy a totally dominant position in the years to come," says Simon Petermann, professor of international relations at Brussels Free University. "That's a position that, in many respects, the Germans have long held. The difference now is that the old formula casting Germany as an economic giant and a political dwarf no longer holds true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe The New Germany Flexes Its Muscles | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...medic in World War I, Heckel kept his sketchbook close to him, recorded in blistering strokes the wounded and the insane, the sight of bombed-out villages and bands of homeless orphans. As the gallery's Erwin Petermann, the arranger of the show, says: "Heckel is still as provocative as anything an angry young man of today will concoct, with the difference that instead of showing one's disdain in burlap and trash, or manifesting one's revulsion in painted soup-can labels, his work shows the roughness of life in realistic exclamation marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shadow of the Bridge | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Ireland during the Middle Ages" are valuable contributions to the department of British history. The list of accessions to the library covers over thirty-nine pages of the bulletin. In the Harvard necrology is recorded the deaths of twenty-four Harvard men. The classified index to maps in Petermann's geographische Mittheilungen is continued as well as the bibliography of Ptolemy's Geography. Justin Winson contributes the beginning of a description of the Kohl collection of early maps, belonging to the state department at Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. | 10/22/1883 | See Source »

...October number of the University Bulletin has just appeared, with the following table of contents : 1. Corporation and Overseer's Records. 2. Accessions to the Libraries. 3. A Bibliography of Fossil Insects. 4. Catalogue of the Lee MSS. 5. Maps in Petermann's Mittheilungen. 6. List of American Geological Writers, and, 7, University Notes. The records of the corporation and overseers published extend from April 10 to October 28. Besides the various votes accepting resignations and making appointments to offices of instruction, the following is a synopsis of the more important measures adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OCTOBER BULLETIN. | 11/6/1882 | See Source »

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